{"id":354586,"date":"2026-03-30T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354586\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:14:16","slug":"graham-norton-shares-tv-show-stunt-he-halted-because-it-would-just-be-creepy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354586\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Norton shares TV show stunt he halted because it would ‘just be creepy’ now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Norton has opened up on a TV show stunt that he stopped doing as he said it would ‘just be creepy’ now due to his age, as he reflects on growing up with his audience<\/p>\n

Jessica Clarke Digital Reporter <\/p>\n

20:25, 29 Mar 2026Updated 20:46, 29 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

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The host, who started his first chat show So Graham Norton in 1998, reminisced on some of the conversations he used to have(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Graham Norton<\/a> has opened up on a TV show stunt that he stopped doing as he said it would ‘just be creepy’ now. The host, who started his first chat show So Graham Norton<\/a> in 1998, reminisced on some of the conversations he used to have, and how he wouldn’t feel right having the same conversations at his age.<\/p>\n

Graham said<\/a>: \u201cI look back at some of the things I did when we started. I would be running around the audience with a microphone getting people to tell me their sex stories and confessions about sex toys and things. I was 30-something then. Now I am 60-something. If I was doing that, that would just be creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham added: \u201cI have basically been doing a version of a chat show for two decades. The main change is I\u2019ve got older \u2014 and I am very lucky, in a way, that I\u2019ve got to age in real time on television with an audience. If you saw the first episode of So Graham Norton and you saw the last episode of The Graham Norton Show, that would be quite a shock. It would be quite depressing. But then because the audience has been there, it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Graham Norton has opened up on a TV show stunt that he stopped doing as he said it would ‘just be creepy’ now(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

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Graham joked on the Wanging On podcast, with Maria McEelane, that he had trademarked himself to be AI to continue hosting chat shows forever.<\/p>\n

Chatting to his co-host at Advertising Week Europe, Norton also spoke about whether he’ll receive an invitation to Taylor Swift’s nuptials with American football star Travis Kelce. He said: “I don’t know, no (I have not signed a non-disclosure agreement).<\/p>\n

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Chatting to his co-host at Advertising Week Europe, Norton also spoke about whether he’ll receive an invitation to Taylor Swift’s nuptials(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

“I said that as a joke on the podcast, I said, ‘oh I’ve signed all these NDAs’, and then it started getting reported as a serious thing in America. I didn’t say cut that out because I thought it was so obviously a joke.”<\/p>\n

This follows Swift’s decision to include Graham, in her music video for the track Opalite, alongside fellow guests from his BBC<\/a> chat show, including actor Cillian Murphy, singer Lewis Capaldi and About Time star Domhnall Gleeson.<\/p>\n

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Graham said he used to have conversations that he wouldn’t feel right having now at his age(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his cameo in the video, Norton remarked: “I said to Taylor at the time, often in your 60s you begin to give up on your dream of appearing in a major pop video, but it happened, and thank you very much, Taylor Swift<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Opalite features on Swift’s most recent studio album The Life Of A Showgirl, which dropped in October last year.<\/p>\n

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